aboriginal
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There are several ongoing aboriginal title claims in British Columbia, and the Cowichan decision could affect private-property owners in those regions as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
That court case took 25 years and affirmed Tsilhqot’in’s aboriginal title and control of 733 square miles of their ancestral lands in central B.C., a precedent that stands as a landmark around the world.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Similar to the Coquille, the Karuk went decades without a reservation, even after the U.S. government took ownership of the tribe’s aboriginal hunting and fishing land in a forested swath of the Klamath River Basin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
“The DNA study also provides the Blood Tribe/Kainai with a new line of evidence to help further treaty and aboriginal rights,” the study authors wrote to Science in a collaborative statement.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
Only on the remote Andaman Islands do languages unrelated to the South Chinese language families persist—the last linguistic survivors of what must have been hundreds of now extinct aboriginal Southeast Asian languages.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Yet when aboriginal leaders suggested that any amendment to the constitution should empower, rather than simply nod at aboriginals, the government demurred.
From Economist ● Jul. 5, 2018
The prince then travelled into Australia's Daintree Rainforest where he met the Kuku Yalanji aboriginals.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2018
Parks Canada will determine ownership in conjunction with the Inuit aboriginals in the northernmost Canadian territory of Nunavut and unnamed “government organizations”, the agency said, without giving details.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2016
Even before the court ruling, the Gateway project was under a cloud of uncertainty because of local opposition from aboriginals, environmentalists and lawmakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2016
While we took wood at a Gilyak village I embraced the opportunity to visit the aboriginals.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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